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Jessica Halloran is a Walkley award-winning sports writer. She has been covering sport for two decades and has reported from Olympic Games, world swimming and athletics championships, the rugby World Cup as well as the AFL and NRL finals series. In 2017 she wrote Jelena Dokic’s biography Unbreakable which went on to become a bestseller.

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GUANGZHOU, CHINA - MAY 09: Sebastian Coe, President of World Athletics attend the a press conference ahead of the 2025 Guangzhou World Athletics Relays at Tianhe Stadium on May 09, 2025 in Guangzhou, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

Coe’s biological tests edict faces local ethics hurdle

Australia’s premier sporting body is yet to endorse World Athletics’ plan to swab female athletes as it weighs up ‘ethical, legal and legislative elements relevant to this matter’.

Jessica Halloran

ExclusiveOlympics

BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND - AUGUST 07: Paige Hadley, Kate Moloney and Gretel Bueta of Team Australia pose for a photo during the Netball Medal Ceremony on day ten of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games at NEC Arena on August 07, 2022 on the Birmingham, England. (Photo by Stephen Pond/Getty Images)

Diamond idea for netball at the Olympics

The heavy hitters lining up to push for Australia’s most popular participation sport’s inclusion for Brisbane 2032 – but can they clear the gender parity hurdle that stands in netball’s way?

Jessica Halloran

exclusiveFootball

FILES-- This file photo taken on August 16, 2023 shows Australia's forward Sam Kerr celebrating scoring her team's first goal during the Australia and New Zealand 2023 Women's World Cup semi-final football match between Australia and England at Stadium Australia in Sydney. Chelsea and Australian women's football star Sam Kerr has been charged with a

After Matildas mania, FA boss quits and $9m loss revealed

The Australian can reveal Football Australia posted a $9m loss following the shock resignation of boss James Johnson.

Jessica Halloran and John Stensholt

MAGAZINEThe Weekend Australian Magazine

EMBARGO FOR TWAM, 03 MAY 2025. FEE MAY APPLY. Waratahs Joseph Suaalii for The Australian Weekend Magazine. Photo: James Horan / TWAM

Why rugby’s hottest star has no tattoos

Once-in-a-generation footballer or a ‘pretty weird dude’? Joseph Suaalii is full of surprises.

Jessica Halloran

NRLNRL

Magic Round. Herbie Farnworth and Pat Carrigan.Picture: Nigel Hallett

Magic footy festivals a huge hit with the fans

Magic Round is booming for the NRL, while Gather Round has also become a showpiece for the AFL. But will both festive events soon be moved to new venues?

Jessica Halloran

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Olympic powerbroker John Coates, left, and Channel Ten newsreader Sandra Sully.

Olympics powerbroker unloads on Sandra Sully

In his most candid interview, John Coates hits out at the ‘hide’ of Channel Ten newsreader Sandra Sully, who reached out to him for help as she stood for an AOC board position.

Andrew Webster and Jessica Halloran

EXCLUSIVESport

31-03-2025 - Valerie Vickerman With a painted portrait of her son, former Wallaby Dan Vickerman. DanÃs parents have funded a research grant to look at CTE - dementia caused by head knocks - after Dan died by suicide. Photographed at home in Bowral NSW. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers / The AustralianÃ

Patient zero: the Wallaby who couldn’t live with the noise leaves a ‘quiet legacy’

Dan Vickerman’s mind had become a war zone and he didn’t know why. A once measured, ‘gentle giant’, there were now times when he’d lose it over the smallest of things. His mother reveals why she believes rugby may have cost him his life.

Jessica Halloran

Track titansSport

PERTH, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 10: Gout Gout of Queensland poses with spectators after winning the Men's U20 100m Final during the 2025 Australian Open and Under 20 Athletics Championships at WA Athletics Stadium on April 10, 2025 in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)

It’s a gold, gold, golden age for Australian athletics

Teen sprinter Gout Gout mobbed like rock star; a stadium sellout for the first time in decades; a 57-year-old sprint record broken — what’s driving the explosion of running talent?

Jessica Halloran

FootballFootball

Matildas superstar Sam Kerr enjoying a family day out in Sydney … and sending a message about women’s sport. Picture: Matrix

Kerr keeping mum, but still sends a message

Sam Kerr’s return to the Matildas camp has been welcomed, as she took to the streets in Sydney with not a hint of the bother from her hellish past year.

Jessica Halloran

sportOlympics

Former Labor powerbroker Mark Arbib will be named as the Australian Olympic Committee chief executive.

Slam dunk: Mark Arbib appointed new Australian Olympic chief

The former Labor power broker and advisor to James Packer, was voted in by the AOC board to replace outgoing CEO Matt Carroll.

Jessica Halloran

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